Feeling low? Missing your loved ones? Reiki can help you heal.

I went to the cinema to watch the latest Bridget Jones film yesterday. It was excellent –  lots of laughs in it – which was weird, given that the central theme of the film is grief!!

Coincidentally, I’ve also had several clients recently who’ve come for a Reiki Treatment in The Cabin because of their grief.

Each had lost their spouse in recent years. But although that initial shock and disbelief of the first year without their partner has passed, sadly their grief is still very much still with them several years later, and it’s really effecting how they live now.

They feel stuck: it’s as if they can’t, or don’t know how to move on.

Of course, to the outside world it looks like they’re coping, even thriving, but on the inside, that’s certainly not the case.

For one of my clients, just like Bridget Jones, when their partner died it meant they also suddenly became a single parent – so it is perhaps understandable that they had to put their own grief on hold in order to help their children deal with this huge and unexpected life transition.

I completely get that.

But putting on a brave face and carrying on for the sake of everyone else can lead to some very lonely places.

If the outside world thinks you’re coping, no-one thinks to ask if you need support. And so, you keep it all bottled up inside – until the day when you really don’t think you can take any more of the pain and sadness inside.

The outside world thinks you're coping: inside, it's a different story.

Thankfully, for the clients who came to see me at Mintaka Reiki in Sandbach, they have started to find the release and comfort they so desperately need.

Reiki is a safe, natural, and simple healing technique, which many people turn to as a way of helping with a physical problem, such as pain, or insomnia or infertility...the list is endless!

But Reiki is not just about physical healing: it also delves deep into emotional and spiritual wellness – which is where it can help you with grief, worry, stress, and anxiety.

But what can you do if you don’t have Reiki in your life? Or even if you've had a Reiki Treatment, and it helped at first, but there’s still times when sadness threatens to envelop you once again. What then?

We’ve all lost loved ones in our lives, and although time really is a great healer, sometimes it’s inevitable that the grief and sadness of loss will come calling again.

When that happens for me, I always return to the Five Reiki Precepts for support.

The precepts are not rules or affirmations, they’re just spiritual gifts of wisdom that really do help you lead a happier and more fulfilling life. The precepts are taught at Reiki I workshops, but they really are the foundations for every stage of your Reiki journey after that.

I’ve written before about the first two Reiki Precepts: Just for today, I will not worry; and Just for today, I will not be angry. You might like to read those Blogs by clicking below.

Just for today, I will not worry

Just for today, I will not be angry

Both of the above precepts will definitely help anyone who is struggling with their grief.

But I think the third Reiki precept is particularly relevant, too:

Just for today, I will be grateful.

...being grateful for the time you did spend with your loved one; being grateful

for all the happiness; being grateful for all memories you created that can

never be destroyed; being grateful that you got to travel some of this

journey with such a remarkable soul...

If you live your life in gratitude for all that you have, or have had, life really can be a little less painful, and more rewarding.

I’m not talking about being grateful for all the material things you have in your life, those things are shallow and meaningless, I’m talking about all the free things – your body, mind, spirit, your health, trees, plants, animals… and of course, your departed loved ones.

I know it seems like a simple thing to say, be grateful, but you’ll be amazed at how much this way of being changes your life.

Going back to Bridget Jones, there was a line right near the end of the film that really struck a chord with me. Someone was explaining to Bridget's little boy that his father may have died, but that doesn't mean he's gone: "Energy is only ever transferred, it can never be destroyed," he said.

How very true. And as we're all made up of energy, it makes sense to me that my lost loved ones will never die in my heart. And for that I am truly grateful.

Until next week.

Much love,

Denise